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In his last series of animated woodblock print gifs, Segawa slotted disappearing UFOs, lasers, and bullet trains into Japanese woodblock print master Katsushika Hokusai's works.
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For readers interested in Japanese woodblock prints, the exhibition Showdown!
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Western technology proved a consistent fascination to Japanese woodblock artists.
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The result is a combination between screenprint, woodblock, and painting.
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There are also Edo period woodblock parodies, some openly erotic.
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Studies of its woodblock prints, ceramics and photographs are in progress.
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GARRISON "Better Off Together," installation of woodblock prints by Melissa Schlobohm.
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We time-stretched the sound of the woodblock and zoomed into the partials and spectra of a single woodblock stroke — just a millisecond of sound — and opened it up and basically unfolded the whole piece from there.
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Yoshida created his first woodblock print at the age of forty-four.
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Jasper52's Fine Japanese Woodblock Print Auction continues online through November 20.
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Featuring 55 works it spans freestanding sculptures, wall reliefs, and woodblock prints.
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The woodblock printmaking arrived in Japan alongside Buddhism during the 1003th century.
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Ukiyo-e, Japanese woodblock printing, is perhaps Japan's most iconic artistic tradition.
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Wies van der Velde also makes custom pottery and beautifully textured woodblock prints.
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The German-born Ms. Büttner, 45, works in woodblock prints, etchings and paintings.
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Ms. Omazic makes each piece using artisanal techniques like hand-painting and woodblock printing.
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Cannon makes woodblock prints and collages; and there's even one piece of soft sculpture.
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Many of these images or granular in detail and flat, almost like a woodblock print.
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Chief among these are lithographic prints from woodblock paintings by Utagawa Hiroshige and Katsushika Hokusai.
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"Woodblock prints only depict one scene, but this artwork shows the whole street view," said Shinkyo.
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Superman clashes with Chinese legends in artist Jacky Tsai's fusion of comic books and woodblock prints.
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SETAUKET "Printmaking," images created in various techniques including woodblock, etching, engraving, silk-screen and lithography. Sept.
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The illustration is similar to work by famed ukiyo-e woodblock artist Utagawa Kunisada, depicting digestion.
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Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, lovers of Japanese woodblock art: Let's get ready to rumble!
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Her woodblock prints are large, abstract, and powerfully expressive — yet they convey the feeling of fragility.
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Most decks came from woodblock prints on sheets of paper that were then cut into individual cards.
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Two small drawings of demonic female nudes by June Culp look like woodblock prints of Troll dolls.
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Together Shin-Hanga and Sosaku Hanga (or "Creative Prints") brought the woodblock print into the modern age.
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Ukiyo-e artists produced woodblock prints incorporating depictions of tattooed bodies that told personal stories of their own.
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It looks like a woodblock print, of course, because that's what it is, though an extraordinarily detailed one.
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Made up of 36 monochromatic woodblock prints, each with an Urdu word and an "idea-image" that follows.
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Parts of the woodblock prints have been imbued with movement via motors and wooden gears inside the frame.
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Christie's From Artist to Woodblock: Japanese Prints online sale accrued a total of £735,500 (~$958,000) on July 12.
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Woodblock printing in Japan originated as early as 1640, and the first full-color prints appeared in 1765.
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Bokashi is a well-known woodblock technique used by 19th-century Japanese artists to create a gradated color.
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In Terminal 2, a girl showed her mother a woodblock print she made at a public art station.
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Other commands, like a woodblock sequence that switches the woodwind on and off, take time to become clear.
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Ronin Gallery's David Libertson tells Creators that woodblock printing began in China, arriving in Japan by the 19393th century.
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The fantasy Japan of color woodblock prints and black-and-white movies was being replaced by the actual country.
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In fact this blue was an important pigment in the famous "floating world" of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
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After seeing an exhibit of Japanese woodblock prints, Chéret adopted some of the artists' approaches to depth and perspective.
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She's used a wide variety of paper- and printmaking techniques, including silkscreen, cast paper works, etchings, lithographs, and woodblock prints.
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To close Tsukiji is to sever Tokyo's remaining link to its vibrant, mercantile past, celebrated in countless old woodblock prints.
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He didn't see woodblock prints or hear Japanese poetry until 1939, when he arrived at Taliesin, Wright's school of architecture.
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Within the long, storied tradition of Japanese woodblock printing, Shiko Munakata stands out as one of the art form's greatest.
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"It was a time in Japan when woodblock printing was seen as a kind of secondary art form," she explains.
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The struggle is real for kimono-clad, minimalist characters in pseudonymous Japanese artist Zenjidou Yamada's anachronistic woodblock print-style illustrations.
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A Nile Voyage of Recovery is illustrated with graceful, colorful woodblock prints of Egyptian scenes and adorned with exquisite typography.
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On the second floor, four multicolored woodblock prints depict a gargantuan humanoid rat on horseback trotting away from a city.
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All of the mostly 22020th-century ukiyo-e woodblock prints that are reproduced in Thompson's book come from the MFA's collection.
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Early on, Nobari found influences in the clean line-work of old woodblock and crosshatch drawings he found in history books.
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Sensational contemporary ceramics continue a glazing style first developed in 16th-century Japan, alongside a collection of unusually elegant woodblock prints.
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In the work of muralist and painter Boy Kong, graffiti and Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock art brush up against each other.
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Are they some esoteric Bauhaus graphic design reference, or perhaps some minimalist woodblock prints from an artist I wasn't familiar with?
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Tucek obsessively re-draws a single subject with lines that are heavy and blunt, as if she's cutting into a woodblock.
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And it provides a good overall sense of the historical trajectory from Hokusai's woodblock prints to Osamu Tezuka's postwar, Disney-influenced comics.
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Hell in Japanese Art includes the 19th-century woodblock-printed edition of Genshin's text, accompanied by a modern text translated into English.
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Something about how the angular structure of the landscape depicted on the vertically oriented smartphone screen recalled classic Edo-era woodblock work.
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"I also love the print that hangs above the crib, by Block Shop Textiles," Tulloch adds of the Boat Woodblock Print ($120).
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He pitched the idea of utilizing a woodblock printing technique to create a pattern-based graphic, something he hadn't seen done before.
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Tens of thousands of woodblocks were carved, printed and then scanned; each woodblock made up one frame of a 10-minute film.
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The wave looked a lot like the famous woodblock print "The Great Wave of Kanagawa" from the early 1830s by artist Hokusai.
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It was a damp, woolly day, and the skies, as in the woodblock, were a sullen and indecisive gray — Would it rain?
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An original map, one that came directly off the woodblock, would not have replicated that tear, which happened later, Mr. Wilding said.
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Hairstyles may seem, today, like a trivial way to understand gender, but they comprised an essential visual code in traditional woodblock prints.
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These typically adolescent boys don similar haircuts and in some cases, wear identical clothing to the women portrayed in the same woodblock prints.
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"I think it was his love of the traditional technique of Japanese woodblock printing," Neuer says, of what drew Yoshida to the form.
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Turn a selfie into a Mondrain, a landscape into a Hokusai woodblock print, a dick pic into an impressionist masterpiece (for whatever reason).
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The flag is a hand-pulled woodblock print of Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp's feminine alter ego) on handmade Japanese paper painted with watercolor.
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She offers additional context, providing a brief summary of the development of Japanese woodblock printing as well as an overview of Hokusai's career.
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These works, as well as the artist's freestanding sculptures, wall reliefs, and woodblock prints, amply illustrate his tremendous facility with materials and imagery.
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The artist now creates vivid woodblock prints of matatus from scenes he photographs around Nairobi, and sells his artwork in Kenya and abroad.
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For example "Beggar" (2016), a series of nine, large, black woodblock prints, offers simple iterations of a hooded kneeling figure with arms outstretched.
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That special relationship between the two nations contextualizes artist Vincent van Gogh's lifelong adoration and appropriation of Japanese woodblock imagery into his paintings.
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An eye-opening exhibition at Japan Society closely examines representations of wakashu in woodblock prints from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum.
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Brangwyn met Yoshijiro Urushibara in the 1910s, after Urushibara had arrived in London to demonstrate woodblock production at the Anglo-Japanese Exhibition in 1910.
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Japanese video artist Atsuki Segawa is back with some more Ukiyo-e 2.0—traditional Japanese woodblock prints transformed into a series of animated gifs.
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"These prints spoke both to the fiercely modern nature of Munakata's work and the intertwined history of Buddhism and the woodblock print," says Libertson.
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"A number of Japanese woodblock print (ukiyo-e) artists have incorporated sakura into their art," David Taro Libertson, President of Ronin Gallery, tells Creators.
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Bryan Nash Gill (1961-2013) was a tree hugger extraordinaire who took inspiration from his native New England forests and specialized in woodblock prints.
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The University of California, San Francisco, has a particularly rich collection of over 400 of these works in the UCSF Japanese Woodblock Print Collection.
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Born in Edo to a silk dyer, Kuniyoshi first studied art under Shunei, then began studying woodblock printing under Toyokuni I at age 14.
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It is impossible to look at these paintings without a multitude of associations, mostly non-Western, popping up — from Persian miniatures to Japanese woodblock prints.
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In the Zen Buddhist ceremony, the percussionist uses a woodblock called a mokugyo, and each time they hit it, they chant one syllable of sutra.
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Researchers from Harvard and Northwestern University have stored Hokusai's 19th century woodblock painting "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" using a new method involving protein molecules.
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Big hits like "Black Beatles" and "Formation" reveal their intricacies, with woodblock percussion in the latter and in-the-pocket 808 fills in the former.
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Done in soft shades of blue and salmon, it mixes the realism of the European school of painting with the graphic elegance of Japanese woodblock printing.
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He worked his way through ceramics, woodblock printing, illustration, frame making, and designing posters and theater sets before finding his voice as a sculptor of furniture.
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This perspective on the city reminds me of Hokusai's "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" from the 1830's, the famed woodblock series celebrating quotidian life.
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Rather than depicting every grain of sand and snowflake we used a woodblock like texture across most of the surfaces in the film to imply detail.
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Inside, an abundance of hanging scrolls, ceramics, woodblock paintings and silk screens fills its five stories; a well-tended garden and a cafe are in back.
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They immortalized the event in woodblock prints and watercolor scrolls, and the images proved so popular that versions were produced and disseminated over the following decades.
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Many depict significant aspects of the station's surrounding regions, often drawn with intricate renderings forming beautiful scenes that recall the lines of traditional ukiyo-e woodblock prints.
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At LA Louver, you can draw these connections for yourself, as the figures of Saar's sculptures take on new forms in her lithographs, etchings, and woodblock prints.
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In a woodblock, once In an early-Netherlandish world, He is shown with a crocodile, a unicorn, and a wobbly man With a tail and prehensile feet.
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The top lot was a woodblock print of Katsuhika Hokusai's "Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa)," which sold for $250,000.
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Tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, woodblock prints, and early photographs provide us with 1,000 years of visual astronomy conducted by people who probably never thought of themselves as astronomers.
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After the fall of the shogunate and the rise of the Meiji Emperor in the early 20th century, woodblock printmaking became a medium of politicization and propaganda.
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Bright patterning — of natural flora or geometric trompe l'oeil effects — is often woodblock-printed on it, or watermarks are threaded in, on pages lined vertically for calligraphy.
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Why, out of all the masterpieces in the Met, does a man pick out a certain Japanese woodblock print, or a bull-shaped boli from West Africa?
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When she was studying with Dow, the champion of Japanese design, he had his students make a monogram from their own initials using the traditional woodblock method.
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Classic Japanese woodblock cut art The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife: The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife Posing with an octopus is as physically icky as you'd imagine.
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Under the shoguns (military rulers), merchant and cultural life—centred upon bustling Edo—had been far from stagnant, as the stunning woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige attest.
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This period is the time most strongly associated with the ukiyo-e woodcut tradition, which produced many of Japan's most iconic woodblock prints, including those by Katsushika Hokusai.
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After Yoshitoshi's death, woodblock printing branched off into Sosaku Hanga, or "creative prints," and Shin Hanga, or "new prints," categories that marked the birth of contemporary Japanese printmaking.
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These miniature works of art were much different from common playing cards of the Middle Ages, which were printed with a woodblock and cut from a single page.
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Scholten Japanese Art A private collection of 200-year-old woodblock prints from the "golden age of ukiyo-e," including some unique examples, passes briefly through the market.
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But amidst all the film's visual delights, in talking to the creatives behind Kubo, one name was all but unavoidable: that of Japanese woodblock print artist Kiyoshi Saito.
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Woodblock prints from this era, often in the vibrant ukiyo-e style, captured this transition, with kabuki actors representing internal processes, and Buddhist deities battling cholera and measles.
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The superimposition of multiple materials complements the ukiyo-e woodblock prints of Hiroshige displayed inside, with their layers of ink printing, each not quite obscuring the one beneath.
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On the other hand, the angular, blocky, and tapered figures, in part the result of his mastery of printmaking and woodblock techniques, show him to be a remarkable stylist.
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Pear and Blue Cheese, Freckled Woodblock Chocolate, Black Olive Brittle & Goat Cheese, and Baked Alaska,and Arbequina Olive Oil are just a few crowd pleasers, as noted by Delish.
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The cross-fertilization of languages, cultures and ideas within the dynasty led to major advances in art and technology, like the invention of everything from gunpowder to woodblock printing.
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Afterward, they'll hear about Escher's life and artistic principles, see demonstrations of woodblock printing and learn how to make their own art incorporating one of his favorite techniques: tessellation.eschernyc.
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Kawase Hasui: Quiet Elegance features over 50 signed woodblock prints collected by U.S. military officers between the end of World War II and the end of the Korean War.
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Although well depicted throughout art history (best exemplified by Japan's most iconic ukiyo-e woodblock painting), few artists render the true exuberance of waves as well as painter Lori Gilbert.
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Gautron's style is inspired by Japanese woodblock prints — an art form that involves images from everyday life being stamped from carved wood to create a stylized but realistic final product.
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Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai's iconic woodblock print, The Great Wave, is going on view one last time this year before it will be put into storage indefinitely for conservation reasons.
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Although most famous for his landscapes in his woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji, he drew just about everything, from scenes of everyday life to the supernatural.
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We have here all the intentional awkwardness that Nietzsche noted in his praise of this piece, the jovially insane transitions yet steady spirit: truly a medieval woodblock print in sound.
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From dreamy history paintings from the 19th century to Japanese woodblock prints from the 1800s, one scroll through the account is more than just an art lesson; it's bonafide hair inspiration.
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A pioneering modernist, Munakata's woodblock prints are known for a blend of expressive lines and a monochrome palette (typically black and white), while being influenced by folk art and Buddhist history.
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When talking about her child, she uses one of those woodblock and wire toys, which makes some sorta pleasant shuffling sounds into the microphone, before she retreats back into familiar territory.
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In the first vitrine, five covers of Der Sturm — the German art magazine of Herwarth Walden — are based on linocuts so delicately textured they evoke woodblock, that most German print form.
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In pursuit of the authentic, he had resins sent from Singapore and Indonesia, and Japanese woodblock colors from his brother William, the American Ambassador to Japan in the early nineteen-thirties.
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The DNA of a Japanese woodblock printing master runs through the veins of Kubo and the Two Strings, which is shaping up to be year's biggest animated film (sorry, Sausage Party).
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He made his first woodblock prints in 226, inspired by the innovations of Japanese artists, eliminating their rich colors while exploiting their practice of cutting with rather than against the grain.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In a ukiyo-e style woodblock print by the Edo-period artist Suzuki Harunobu, two couples frolic in a brothel, seemingly lost in separate worlds.
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" Japan is famous for its woodblock printmaking tradition, specifically works made during the Edo Period (1603 to 1868) in the ukiyo-e style, which translates to "pictures from the floating world.
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Katsushika Hokusai's famous woodblock prints from his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (1831-33) and Wondrous Views of Famous Bridges in Various Provinces (1834) are among the exhibited works.
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The six-panel, color woodblock print depicts the harbor and the narrow spit of land to which international merchants were confined following the opening of Japan to global trade in the 1850s.
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Kameelah Janan Rasheed's woodblock print "Punctuated Blackness" (2013) repeats the word "black" followed by various punctuation marks, to show how a colon, question mark or exclamation point invokes rational analysis or outrage.
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These prints may be found in a number of museums, but eight from the comic series are currently up for auction, presented by Jasper52 in an online sale of Japanese woodblock prints.
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But in Gauguin's Pacific phase, too, it's the decorative arts, as well as woodblock prints sometimes carved on Polynesian wood, that reveal his unconstrained experiment and his readiness to seek stranger shores.
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Based around a simple woodblock rhythm in a call-and-response pattern, "BTD150" either sounds like the restrained beginning of a well-deserved celebration or a suspense film's horrifically calm death knell.
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This time she will bring his newest pictures, along with, for reference, a rare Yoshitora Utagawa ukiyo-e woodblock print, whose centuries-old monsters serve as inspiration for Ukai's spooky-weird confections.
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This time around, the serial GIF maker has repurposed centuries-old woodblock prints to show what life would have been like in the Japan of old if computers and tablets had been around.
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Her later inspirations include the Japanese woodblock print style known as ukiyo-e — "It was an instant love," she says of the distinct style — and, more recently, following her contemporaries on social media.
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Her "Luck Lines" (2018), one of the show's best paintings, features a large red bulbous hand whose swirling lines have the texture of a refined woodblock, and give each finger its own personality.
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After first sketching onsite, he would continue his paintings from imagination, which allowed him to simplify his compositions into broad zones of stark light and shades, recalling the style of his woodblock prints.
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Christie's sale of Asian 0003th Century Art (day sale), including a selection of Japanese woodblock prints from private collections in Hong Kong brought in a total of 120,216,750 HKD (~$31,3373,3000) on November 3495.
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He contributes a vibrant work that juxtaposes two images: a traditional Japanese woodblock print of two women in luxurious kimonos, and a muted depiction of a man standing between rows of internment camp shacks.
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His apartment in Paris was cluttered with his Japanese collectibles — tiny netsuke figures, lacquered tea bowls, woodblock prints by Utamaro and Hiroshige, a reminder that he and Monet were not provincial in their tastes.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Hold onto your wallets: a massive collection of cat art is now on the market, from paintings to woodblock prints to face jugs (with feline features, of course).
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"House with Tree — Green," in watercolor and graphite, possesses the graphic punch of a woodblock print — its two tall black trees partially obscuring a mint-green moon, its house simplified to a chimneyed, triangular silhouette.
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Baumann settled in Santa Fe in his late 30s and lived the rest of his life in northern New Mexico, chronicling the region primarily through his woodblock prints, though he was also a skilled painter.
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"In the final water system for Kubo, if you were to stop the frame and zoom in, you would see the Japanese woodblock Saito texture patterning in every one of these rain drops," says Emerson.
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One early look that generated some buzz was a high-waist pair of pants knit from tan plastic and mohair worn with mint-green patent leather-covered woodblock shoes and a double-faced cashmere vest.
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He traces the fantastical, wires-on visual style of Japanese film, also the bedrock of Flash Gordon, back to woodblock print paintings, and the stylized costumes and rigid structure of kabuki, noh, and bunraku theater.
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In "American Procession," three woodblock prints produced through a collaboration between Birk and artist Elyse Pignolet, the dark sides of the US are not necessarily victorious, but rather are locked in an unending battle against good.
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Known in the West largely through the popular woodblock prints that had a profound influence on modern art, the Art Institute presents ukiyo-e in its upmarket version, with over 150 painted screens and hanging scrolls.
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Thus attired, they moved as a group toward a Zanobi del Rosso 19793th-century "Lemon House," looking like nothing so much as members of a diplomatic legation to the Medici court in a woodblock print by Hiroshige.
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In 1921, Elizabeth Keith, a Scotswoman who was one of the very rare westerners to visit Japanese-occupied Korea, made a woodblock print of the gorge, whose rich greens and blues sharply contrast with the Korean grisailles.
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Inspired by the French realist painter, Jean-François Millet, then awakening to color and distinct small strokes among the Parisian Impressionists, van Gogh, an avid collector of of Japanese woodblock prints, was well connected in artistic circles.
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Unlike them, he remained there, developing a distinctive style of abstraction based on organic shapes, drawing inspiration from the woodblock prints of Jean Arp and Wassily Kandinsky and, perhaps most decisively, the ink drawings of Henri Matisse.
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They exemplify how the Japanese reworked their own traditional designs, materials, and objects with innovation: hanging scroll paintings, woodblock prints, and kimonos, for instance, carry unexpected imagery of tipsy women wearing flapper dresses and puffing imported cigarettes.
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Even as woodblock-print artists, in their illustrations of well-known stories from, for example, the kabuki stage, produced pictures incorporating depictions of tattooed bodies, sometimes those inked backs, arms, and torsos also depicted stories of their own.
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And there seems to have been a Japanese connection at its origins, the name Aizuri deriving from "a style of predominantly blue Japanese woodblock printing that is noted for its vibrancy and incredible detail," according to the website.
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Katsushika Hokusai's Dream of a Fisherman's Wife is an iconic reference to rope erotica—the ukiyo-e woodblock print depicts the ecstasy of a woman ravaged by octopuses whose tentacles intertwine and titillate her body in rope-like fashion.
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My obsession with Japan began in 1979 when my parents took me from our house in Brooklyn to see a show of woodblock prints at the Cooper Hewitt museum in Manhattan featuring works by the great landscape artist Hiroshige.
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It is a scene from a woodblock print, "Flower Pavilion, Dangozaka, Sendagi," by the Japanese ukiyo-e master Hiroshige, the 222th image in his serialized portfolio, "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo," which was published between 217 and 230.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The influence of Japanese woodblock prints on the trajectory of 29.953th–century European art is well documented and visually evident in the tendencies of Impressionists like Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Mary Cassatt.
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Both Hokusai and O-Ei were masters of ukiyo-e, a style of painting and woodblock printmaking that first emerged in Japan around the turn of the 17th century and flourished in the 19th with the accomplishments of artists like Hokusai.
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Triumph of Hate is comprised of three distinct bodies of work: a series of satirical prints about Trumpian exploits, graphically violent paintings examining recent events, and a triptych of woodblock prints representing the battle of good versus evil throughout American history.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Many artists during Japan's Edo period designed ukiyo-e woodblock prints, but the works of Utagawa Hirokage stand out from many of these "pictures of the floating world" for their affinity for the absurd.
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Delayed a year, the show was wide-ranging and brilliant, displaying late works that included a painting of an Indian couple at home listening joyously to an antique phonograph, along with a woodblock print that Cannon made of the same image.
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Also on view are fuzzy, magical amulets from Bangkok, a range of ghastly comic books, some contemporary Asian painting, the great Katsushika Hokusai's ukiyo-e, a swath of wraith yūrei-zu, kakemono woodblock prints, and a room of playable video games.
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The highlight of the mirror-themed show of woodblock prints at Scholten Japanese Art is a group of elegant women primping by Ito Shinsui, one of several Taisho-era artists to revive the use of glittering powdered mica as a pigment.
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Half a dozen Noh masks from the 14th century, and woodblock prints of Meiji-era Japanese actors, reintroduce the theatrical tradition that Yeats and his collaborators — with the confident universalism that we later generations can find suspicious — actually understood rather poorly.
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Hokusai also has a room dedicated solely to some of his lesser known work, and even for those who are familiar with his woodblock prints, a collection of his pornographic drawings at the Okada Museum can quickly make visitors pause.
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However, Mohamad "Ucup" Yusuf, a prolific, remarkably talented woodblock artist, who was one of the group's founders, has been a constant, steady presence as Taring Padi has evolved, and he has served as a spokesman of sorts for the group.
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This very website, too, has had access to our Facebook page restricted because of a post of a photograph by Kate Durbin, found guilty due to an exposed butt, and, more recently, of a Japanese erotic woodblock print from 1814.
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"Godot" (2008) is Ferlinghetti's red and black abstract portrait of Samuel Beckett's perpetually delayed arriver, and the small-scale "Wooden Novel" (2001) is a painted woodblock sculpture shaped like a hardcover book, sending up the limited emotional and intellectual range of midlist novels.
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Some Japanese artists chose to embrace the tradition of woodblock printmaking that flourished from the 17th through the 19th centuries as a rebellion against the encroachment of Western influence on Japanese culture, and a way of celebrating that which was uniquely Japanese.
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Cena suits his woodblock character, imbuing the square firestopper with a warmth that seems neither phony nor self-conscious, and the always welcome Judy Greer waves her magic character-actress wand to fill out what might have been a scolding love interest.
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Maeda may be credited as a porn pioneer, but the history of erotic tentacle imagery can be traced back to The Dream Of The Fisherman's Wife , a 19th century woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai (and work of vintage porn highlighted on Mad Men).
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A new exhibition of his work at Ronin Gallery, Munakata and the Disciples of Buddha, explores Munakata's interest in the Buddhist roots of his country's woodblock printing, which dates back to the 12th century with ukiyo-e prints of the Edo and Meiji periods.
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It's one of six extant copies — all owned and held in different locations — and one of two colossal woodblock-printed maps on view in the exhibition China at the Center, which, in conjunction with a series of other shows, marks the museum's 2200th anniversary.
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Ukiyo-e, the iconic woodblock-print art style of Japan, has almost nothing in common with basketball, a sport utterly foreign to the country until long after the art medium fell out of style in the 19th century at the end of the Edo period.
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In Ronin Gallery's latest exhibition, Ghosts, Demons and the Bizarre, dozens of woodblock prints and paintings by Japanese artists, including masters Kuniyoshi and Yoshitosi, explore the more fantastical realms of the imaginative art form known as Ukiyo-e or "pictures of the floating world".
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More than a thousand years after the Silk Road ushered in the wonders of China, Kyoto remains Japan's cultural center; its artisans carry on traditional crafts like kimono design and woodblock printing, and its chefs make food a ceremonial art form all its own.
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Impressionist masters like Cézanne, Monet, and Degas, Japanse woodblock print artists like Hokusai, sculptors like Rodin, and thousands more are available for anyone to "copy, modify, distribute, and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission," according to the Creative Commons.
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These are stunning, from Toshi Yoshida's intricate picture of cormorants perched on rocks to Hodo Nishimura's study of a one-legged egret — but in terms of virality as we know it today, Hirokage would have emerged as a clear master in the realm of Japanese woodblock printmaking.
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It tracks the Dutch artist's early fascination with imported Japanese "Ukiyo-e" prints — colorful woodblock prints on handmade paper that were very popular in Europe in the late 19th century — and shows how, little by little, van Gogh integrated elements of Japanese art into his own style.
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The debate over Japaneseness was itself in part a Western import, since the mid-21972th-century taste, of Impressionists and Art Nouveau enthusiasts, for japonaiserie — for example, the woodblock prints of Hokusai and Hiroshige, folding screens, ivory medicine boxes — transformed the self-perception of the Japanese.
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But the architectural historian Hiroshi Matsukuma — formerly of Maekawa's firm — has pointed out that Le Corbusier was deeply influenced as a young art student by Japanese woodblock prints, and on his one visit to Japan in 1955, he toured the major temple sites in Kyoto and Nara.
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An eye-opening exhibition at Japan Society closely examines the representations of wakashu in more than 65 woodblock prints drawn from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), where it was initially displayed last year in the first show in North America devoted to wakashu.
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The variety of woodblock prints, illustrated books, and scrolls on view in A Third Gender primarily depict heterosexual wakashu intercourse, which, contrary to the societal expectations outlined previously, often saw them act passive with their female partners, likely due to the young age and sheer inexperience of most wakashu.
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Many of his notable works are in rural areas and serve an ostensibly minor purpose — say, to exhibit a collection of Hiroshige woodblock prints, or to sell Taiwanese pineapple cakes, or to house a Starbucks in the city of Fukuoka, known equally for its ancient temples and shopping malls.
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It helps that the show begins with a tiny unforgettable gallery where Vallotton's talent stays in one place: It is devoted to his groundbreaking woodblock prints of the 21913s, which made him famous, provided entry into the Parisian avant-garde and made his place in modernist art history.
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The bridge between the (by then) New Mexico-based Cannon and the Vienna-based Hundertwasser was their mutual, New York City-based gallerist, Joachim "Jean" Aberbach, who also connected both artists with a master team of Japanese woodblock printmakers, resulting in incredibly fruitful collaborations for both Hundertwasser and Cannon.
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Considered one of the key figures of the sosaku-hanga, or "creative print" movement that valued the artist as the only creator, Mori's process to create these lively images also sets him aside from the woodblock print tradition, which included many hands at work, from artist to carver to printer.
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Late-Edo-period scrolls and woodblock prints of English soldiers, a devil-horned Japanese spirit mask, a strip of bowhead whale scrimshaw, books ranging from shipbuilding guides to his own writings, walrus ivory and soapstone carvings from Canada, coral fossils, a giant four-foot-long seashell combed from an Okinawan beach.
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As someone who comes very close to stealing the Block Shop-designed napkins at Kismet (they are the happiest color of grapefruit pink, with the restaurant's logo charmingly hidden in the natural-white batik pattern), imagine my excitement upon learning that the company is releasing its first collection of woodblock prints.
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Born in 1973 and based in Osaka, where he attends a small art-therapy workshop, Ueno finds inspiration in fashion magazines for his contemporary takes on Japan's traditional bijin-ga, or pictures of beautiful women, which are probably best known to Westerners in the form of centuries-old woodblock prints.
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Believing that his art would improve the longer he lived, from his sixties Hokusai's paintings and prints begin to accelerate in ambition and sophistication, leaping between styles and subjects, informed by European influences on perspective or reverting to tradition as required, and moving away from traditional woodblock production to more painterly practice.
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William Henderson had encouraged Tsireh to browse his collection of art books, and the artist consequently incorporated myriad outside elements into his works: one can find echoes of bold Art Deco geometries — especially evident in the "Rainbow Paintings" — hints of Japanese woodblock prints, and even signs of Egyptian art, such as side-turned feet attached to frontal-facing bodies.
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Meanwhile, New York dealer Beate Echols, a veteran explorer of South America and the Caribbean, will feature some of the printing plates the artist José Costa Leite (born 1927 in northeastern Brazil) made to create woodblock prints; his art is closely linked to the tradition of literatura de cordel, or handmade pamphlets hung from string (cordel) by itinerant vendors.
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They explain how Japanese woodblock prints became all the rage in Paris in the 1860s; how, when Mimar Sinan built the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, he applied many of the same principles Michelangelo used in designing the dome of St Peter's basilica in Rome; and how Portuguese traders brought back people and animals, which is why so many Africans appear in an anonymous painting of Lisbon from the 1570s called "View of a Square with the King's Fountain".
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His works can be found in over 50 public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Tate Modern, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC. Teraoka's first major series after coming to the US from Japan in 1961, McDonald's Hamburgers Invading Japan and 31 Flavors Invading Japan, examined the expansion of American consumerism culture worldwide with Ukiyo-e woodblock print images of Japanese geisha tripping over hamburgers and devouring ice cream.
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Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, compactly presented in a handsome slipcase, opens up like a nigh-on infinitely expandable concertina of a book, in wave after wave after wave of images of daily life as it proceeded in the eye of that dreamily cloud-wreathed sacred mountain: a junk converted into a home is moored amongst reeds; a woman with her babe in the shadow of a lumber yard takes time out to admire smoke wisps encircling the snowcap… This magnificent suite of woodblock prints feels as homey as it is exalted.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Edvard Munch, "Madonna" (1895/1912–13), colored lithograph in black, red and light olive green, and sawn woodblock or stencil in blue on light golden Japan paper, 23 5/8 x 1320 3/8 inches, Collection of Catherine Woodard and Nelson Blitz, Jr. (© 2016 Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York)This week, look at Munch in the context of Expressionism, listen to Hal Foster lecture on sculpture, learn about a forgotten guide book for black travelers, enlist in a conference on GIFs, and more.
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That print has been so endlessly reproduced in a myriad of incarnations littering popular culture (even on a drum kit currently displayed in the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition on Pink Floyd), that to see in the flesh its simple dynamism — the simultaneously still yet crashing wave forming an arc of crisply circling foam above a fishing boat nearly hidden by the brilliant blue sea — is a powerful moment, not least because the British Museum has kept its copy of this celebrated woodblock print off display since 213, due to its fragility.
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